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Vapers Digest 6th May

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Wednesday’s News at a glance:

Industry Responds to Bill ~ Government Celebrates Tobacco & Vapes Bill ~ CAPHRA Urges Policymakers to Expand the Tobacco Cessation Toolkit ~ Argentina Ends the Ban on Vapes ~ Michael Bloomberg’s MPOWER Empire ~ The Unintended Consequences of Mexico’s Vape Ban ~  The Inquiry That Refused to Ask the Only Question That Matters ~ The Conundrum of Peer Review Invitations ~ TPD in Turbulence: A Reshuffle That Signals More Than Process ~ Real Stories, Real Results: New Online Platform Gives Consumers A Voice ~ The Government ends the ban and regulates vaping and nicotine products  ~  ~ Vape metals scare: what the latest study doesn’t tell you ~ President Trump’s Marty Makary Problem ~ Trump Pressures FDA Commissioner to Approve Flavored Vapes ~ FDA Expands Market Access, Authorizes New ENDS Products ~ FDA announces its first OK of fruit-flavored e-cigarettes for adults in major shift under Trump ~ The FDA Finally Moves on Flavored Vapes ~ Banning Cigarettes, Threatening Vapes: A New UK Landscape ~ Condemning Nicotine Pouches, Trump’s Surgeon General Nominee Reveals Her Hostility to Harm Reduction ~ Why do we hate nicotine? ~ A smoke-free generation or a slippery slope? Public health, personal freedom, and the expanding reach of the state ~ THR GLOBAL LAUNCH | Aggregating Personal Testimonies to Impact Policy

Two From Dave Cross, Planet Of The Vapes

Industry Responds to Bill

The UK Vaping Industry Association and the Independent British Vape Trade Association have both reacted to the Tobacco and Vapes Bill receiving Royal Assent. Both welcome the legislation but caution that a balance must be struck to ensure that adult access is not impacted and that measure must be based in evidence.

Government Celebrates Tobacco & Vapes Bill

The Department of Health and Social Care and The Rt Hon Wes Streeting MP have welcomed the Tobacco and Vapes Bill becoming law, saying the next generation will be smoke-free. “The most significant public health reform in generations…will protect children from smoking and vaping,” they say.

CAPHRA Urges Policymakers to Expand the Tobacco Cessation Toolkit

The Coalition of Asia Pacific Tobacco Harm Reduction Advocates (CAPHRA)

CAPHRA is calling for a more comprehensive, evidence-based approach to tobacco cessation and harm reduction — one that acknowledges the full range of risks faced by smokers and oral tobacco users worldwide, and the diverse ways adults successfully move away from deadly products that includes safer nicotine options for adults.

Argentina Ends the Ban on Vapes

Alberto Hernandez, World Vapers’ Alliance

Argentina has taken a major step by lifting the ban on vapes, in place since 2011, and introducing a regulatory framework for alternative nicotine products. The resolution issued by the Ministry of Health creates a legal pathway for vapes, nicotine pouches and heated tobacco products to be imported and sold in the country, marking an important move away from outright prohibition.

Michael Bloomberg’s MPOWER Empire

David Zaruk, Firebreak

What would you do with $2 billion? If you want to spend it on dominating a global policy issue, you should take a lesson from Michael Bloomberg.

With his latest $400 million round of commitments, an even $2 billion is how much Bloomberg’s two main foundations have spent to single-handedly direct the global tobacco and nicotine control campaign, shaping it to fit his puritan, prohibitionist strategy. This is a case study in how the Big Change movement can be controlled by one wealthy billionaire with ambition and a complex network of organizations.

The Unintended Consequences of Mexico’s Vape Ban

Martin Cullip, Taxpayers Protection Alliance

Mexico’s sweeping ban on vaping products was framed as a decisive public health measure. In reality, it is rapidly becoming a case study in how prohibition can backfire by boosting organized crime, distorting markets, and exposing consumers to greater risks.

When former President Andrés Manuel López Obrador moved to ban the import and sale of e-cigarettes, he positioned the policy as part of a broader effort to protect public health. But, when Mexico’s Supreme Court ruled the ban unconstitutional, the response was not to refine the regulatory approach. Instead, the government doubled down. Under President Claudia Sheinbaum, a constitutional amendment passed in early 2025 that reinforced the ban, placing vaping products in the same legal category as one of the world’s most dangerous opioids, fentanyl.

The Inquiry That Refused to Ask the Only Question That Matters

Alan Gor

Yesterday’s hearing into Australia’s illicit tobacco crisis didn’t just expose a black market problem. It exposed something far more uncomfortable, a system straining under the weight of its own contradictions. The Senate inquiry into the illegal tobacco trade was always meant to answer a straightforward question: how big is the problem, and how do we stop it? Instead, what played out yesterday suggested that the real question is one policymakers are still unwilling to confront. How did we get here in the first place?

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The Conundrum of Peer Review Invitations

Arielle Selya PhD, Selya Behavioral Science Substack

Peer review is a burden and the whole process is dysfunctional, as I’ve written on before:

Peer review is also essential for academic publishing, and again in theory everyone recognizes its importance, but in practice it’s a thankless, unpaid task. It takes hours to thoroughly read a manuscript and formulate constructive criticism, and even this is not enough: I often don’t find critical problems until I try to re-analyze the data from scratch. But that doesn’t usually happen in peer review, due to time constraints and data not always being available. As I mentioned above, there is no incentive from universities for researchers to do more than the bare minimum.

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